JAMES MILLER 11.06.16 10:00 PM ET This is the fourth and last in our series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, but were afraid to ask. Read parts one, two and three. Why do so many of Trump’s campaign staffers have dodgy ties to Russian energy companies or Russian state clients? […]
MICHAEL WEISS CATHERINE A. FITZPATRICK JAMES MILLER 11.06.16 4:59 AM Despite a lot of boasts and some shady fixers, Trump has spent decades trying and failing to get a foothold in the Russian market. This is the third in our series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, […]
By MICHAEL WINES NOV. 4, 2016 A federal judge barred three North Carolina counties on Friday from revoking the voting rights of thousands of residents whose eligibility to cast ballots had been challenged by Republican political operatives only weeks before the presidential election. The ruling settled for now a politically freighted battle, in a hotly contested battleground […]
CATHERINE A. FITZPATRICK PIERRE VAUX 11.04.16 9:01 PM ET The second in a series of articles examining Donald Trump’s alleged ties with the Russian government looks at his not-quite-mutual admiration with Putin. This is the second in a series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, but were […]
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD November 03, 2016 The failure this week of Trump Toronto showcased a familiar scenario: big promises, glitzy image, a Russian-born financier, aggrieved smaller investors – but few losses for the mogul himself. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. The 65-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto has all the glitz and ambition of the […]
MICHAEL WEISS 11.03.16 10:03 PM Everything you always wanted to know about Russia and Trump but were afraid to ask (like, when’s World War III?)—Part I. This is the first of a series of articles examining all facets of Donald Trump’s alleged ties or political sympathies with the Russian government. In this installment, Daily Beast […]
By DAVID E. SANGER NOV. 3, 2016 WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday’s election. “Does anyone seriously think that Russia can affect the choice of the American people?” he asked during a foreign policy conference last week in the resort city of Sochi. […]
Media Matters Staff November 2nd, 2016
By Franklin Foer November 2nd, 2016 On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually configured, and to communicate almost exclusively with two servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow. The piece followed a group of computer scientists who had stumbled […]
BY KEN DILANIAN, ROBERT WINDREM, WILLIAM M. ARKIN and TOM WINTER Reported by CYNTHIA McFADDEN Nov. 1, 2016 The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a […]
